What can predict postoperative 'endocrinological cure' in Cushing's disease?

Neurosurgery

Volumn 45, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 239-244

  Nishizawa, Shigeru ^a   Oki, Yutaka ^a   Ohta, Seiji ^a   Yokota, Naoki ^a   Yokoyama, Tetsuo ^a   Uemura, Kenichi ^a  

^a HAMAMATSU UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Adrenocorticotropic hormone; Cushing's disease; Prognosis; Provocation test; Transsphenoidal surgery

Indexed keywords

CORTICOTROPIN; CORTICOTROPIN RELEASING FACTOR; HYDROCORTISONE;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CORTICOTROPIN BLOOD LEVEL; CUSHING DISEASE; FEMALE; HORMONAL THERAPY; HUMAN; MALE; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIOIMMUNOASSAY; TRANSSPHENOIDAL SURGERY;

ADENOMA; ADRENOCORTICOTROPIC HORMONE; ADULT; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; CORTICOTROPIN-RELEASING HORMONE; CUSHING SYNDROME; ENDOCRINE GLANDS; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; FORECASTING; HUMANS; HYDROCORTISONE; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PITUITARY NEOPLASMS; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; REFERENCE VALUES;

EID: 0032867692     PISSN: 0148396X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00006123-199908000-00007     Document Type: Article

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